SPEAKING OF HOT STOVES: A journalistic transition we failed to cover last week -- Mark Bittman has ended his The Minimalist column after 13 years and nearly 700 columns, and will be shifting his writing for the Times to its opinion pages and elsewhere in advocacy for "good, sound eating and traditional farming."
He has listed 25 of his favorite recipes; the rest are all here, including a duck recipe about which I'll have more to say later this year.
